Sentencing Supervised Release.

Byline: Derek Hawkins

7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: United States of America v. Mitrel Y. Anderson, et al.

Case No.: 18-1870; 18-3096

Officials: HAMILTON, BRENNAN, and SCUDDER, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Sentencing Supervised Release

We have before us criminal defendants contending for the first time on appeal that a condition of their terms of supervised release is unconstitutionally vague. We have seen scores of similar appeals in the last six years. And in a series of recent opinions, we have heldin no uncertain termsthat a defendant who receives an opportunity to object to a proposed condition of supervised release at sentencing but fails to do so waives his objection. That binding precedent is the law of the...